Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
Interpretation
Embrace life fully while being mindful of the afterlife.
This quote encourages individuals to live in the present moment with complete dedication and joy, as if they will exist in this life indefinitely, while also preparing for the afterlife with the understanding that life is fleeting and could end at any moment. It emphasizes a balance between enjoying the current life and being spiritually prepared for what comes next, suggesting that both aspects are essential to a fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about finding purpose in life.
Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
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